10 tips to spot a fake rolex

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Please find below Top Tips For Spotting A Fake, Pre-Owned Rolex ...

1. Rolex has never manufactured a watch with a see-through case. If you see a glass-back case on a watch, move on. Youre not looking at a Rolex.

2. Rolex have never fabricated a case or a band with even the smallest amount of rubber. You know its a fake if you feel rubber.

3. Skeleton dials display the moving parts of a timepiece. A skeleton dial may look trendy, but that doesnt mean its a Rolex.

4. Oyster Perpetual Rolex watches always have a screwed-back case never a pop-up.

5. Rolex Oysters are fabricated of stainless steel, gold or platinum. Chrome or chrome-plate is never used.

6. Only mens full-size Rolex watches have day and date features.

7. The case of a Rolex President is platinum, 18-karat yellow or white gold never stainless steel or two-tone stainless and gold.

8. Rolex watches are not gold-plated ever. In the quest for how to identify a Rolex watch; look for either 14 or 18-karat gold.

9. Surprise, surprise. Rolex does make a watch with a quartz movement the Perpetual Oyster, but be careful before you buy. Quartz movements comprise fewer than 10% of all Perpetual Oysters. The other 90% are conventional automatic Rolex movements.

10. Rolex is a Swiss company that in years past manufactured watches in various other countries including the U.S, Mexico, Italy and Venezuela but never China. A Chinese-made Rolex is a 'genuine fake'

Things That You Can Do To Protect Yourself:1. Never buy a watch on the street.

2. Never buy used Rolex watches from an Internet dealer unless he also operates a brick and mortar store situated in a secure, respectable location.

3. A customer always should always have the option to visit the proprietors store and personally inspect a watch. A used Rolex, like a new one, should always come with a warranty.

4. Never buy Rolex watches in the Far East or Turkey, even if the dealer has a storefront presence.

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Fake Taylormade Superquad (and Nike)

Just to reiterate the other warnings about the plethora of Fake Taylormade drivers on Ebay. Last week I bought a Superquad driver from vcsfjpada123 (shop name is fully super - there is nothing super about the goods being sold). IT IS A VERY CONVINCING FAKE - my local TaylorMade retailer took ten minutes to find something wrong with it (mainly the grip and the shaft - the head of the club is almost identical to a genuine club). DO NOT BUY ANY GOODS FROM THIS SELLER.Even if tempted ask for the serial number - they won't have it as it is shipped from a warehouse. (The serial no on my fake is 8BB64GCL.)Payment was not through Paypal but through ppescrow. I have no doubt I have lost my money.The reason I bought the driver was because the item location was listed as "GW, United Kingdom". It arrived in a box from China last Thursday. I played with it on both Thursday and Friday and it hit further than my Cobra F-Speed. However, the club is still a fake and this guy is ripping you off.The items listed for sale now include Nike drivers. I will spoil as many auctions as I can until they are off Ebay.WC

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How to spot fake trainers and clothes on ebay

Although ebay take measure to insure fake items of clothing e.t.c do not come on there site sellers still manage to somehow sell these items .My guide/review will help you spot these and make sure you are getting what you pay for and dont fall into these evil peoples hands what these people are doing is criminal and is not fair on the buyerEbay has strict polices that sellers should not sell fakes and i beleive less afkes are on ebay today than maybe a year ago but they are still there and pople are getting sold fake items daily without knowing it this is not ebays fault BUYERS PLEASE READ BEOFRE COMMITING TO BUY AN ITEM YOU ARE UNSURE OF.

The Chemistry of a Paintball

Who can guess what a mild hypnotic, cardiac drug, cough and cold preparation, stool softener, stage blood, Easter egg, colouring kits, and paintball all have in common? One is a gelatin shell and the other is some of the most demanding chemistry in die health and beauty and recreational industries.

You see all of the above products are soft, elastic, gelatin capsules - softgels. Softgels are one piece, hermetically sealed capsules that are comprised of a liquid fill contained in a gelatin shell. The fill material can be a simple solution or a complex suspension containing oils, waxes, polymers, drugs, dyes, pigments, fragrances, and other components whose names would challenge even the most astute organic chemist. Organic chemists are not the only discipline that can be involved in the development of a paintball. There is room for the inorganic chemist, physical chemist, biochemist, and even a physicist or two.

Now for a little history about the sport of paintball: The first use of paintballs was to mark livestock and trees for slaughter or harvest with oil-based paint. Well of course it did not take long for one yahoo to shoot another yahoo and the game of paintball was born. Well the wives of these yahoos did not appreciate the permanent marks these early paintballs left on the clothes (nor did the landowners who found more trees and animals marked for roundup than intended). Well the yahoos figured this burgeoning sport was too good to give up so they got word back to the manufacturer of the paintballs that there was a demand for a water-soluble paint for recreational use. The formulators in this case were the Production Chemist, Quality Control Manger, and Quality Control/Product Development Chemist. These people knew the most about what may or may not work for this project.

The original paintball was filled with oil-based paint because the fill material of a softgel must be anhydrous (gelatin dissolves in water!) Regular latex paint contains a high percentage of water and would not work so the product development team knew that it was up to them to develop something unique to the manufacturing process.

The fill material had to be water-soluble, anhydrous; capable of carrying dyes and/or pigments, non-staining, thick enough not to run off once it hits its target, and compatible with the gelatin shell. The material of choice was a combination polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 400 (PEG 400) and a molecular weight of 3350 (PEG 3350). The PEG 400 would be the main carrier and the PEG 3350 the thickener to support the pigments. Lower molecular weight PEG's were not chosen because these smaller molecules are capable of penetrating the triple- helix coil of gelatin and acting like a plasticizer. The main plasticizer in the shell (remember these are soft gelatin capsules) is glycerin. Now glycerin is soluble in the PEG 400 and will migrate into the fill material causing the capsule to become brittle over time. Thus a small amount of glycerin was added to the paint formula to establish equilibrium with the shell. This equilibrium is dynamic and will fluctuate depending on the humidity. Therefore, a secondary plasticizer is added to the gelatin shell that is less soluble in the PEG 400. Because this secondary plasticizer is not as efficient a plasticizer as glycerin it cannot be used alone.

The primary pigment is titanium dioxide because of its superior opacity (rutile structure of course). Six (6) food and pharmaceutical grade dyes are used to produce the myriad of colours found in paintballs. Eventually fluorescent pigments would be introduced to brighten things up a bit.

The gelatin shell of the paintball required special attention as well. The gelatin shell had to withstand the sudden acceleration from zero (0) to 300 feet per second (200 mph) in a span of 14 inches then hit a relatively soft body at 100 feet and break. So the shell had to be strong, yet brittle. Now remember that there is interaction between the shell and the fill material. The plasticizer has a habit of going into the fill material while the entire capsule, fill and shell, is like a sponge and is sensitive to fluctuations in humidity and temperature Well, when all appears hopeless there are a few more tricks in the chemistry bag. to try.

First we adjust the plasticizer to gelatin ratio to minimize the amount of plasticizer in order to make a brittle shell. This also minimized the amount of plasticizer to migrate in the fill. Secondly, we used a gelatin derived from pig skins as opposed to the connective tissue of cows. It appears that the molecular weight distribution and the structure of the triple-helix coil from pigs make better paintballs.

In summary, there are few centres in the world that are capable of manufacturing paintballs. Without a doubt, paintballs are the most challenging and difficult product an encapsulator can run. At one point, ALL the paintballs in the world were being produced in Windsor, Ontario. This is because this is where the paintball as we know it today was invented. That was many years and billions of paintballs ago.

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Bad Taste Bears

I am writing this with the recent problems Bad Taste Bears company had.

Firstly, they are still up and running. So if anyone is trying to sell you bears and say the company has gone bust, this is NOT true.

When buying Bad Taste Bears I always advise to do your research first. People have sold bears on here and stated that they are no longer available due to legal reasons. The famous one is Henry....mimicking the Henry Hoover, he was later replaced with J Edgar.

I have seen someone try and sell J Edgar as the rare one.

So, do research!!!

Check other people selling the same bear and ALWAYS read the description. You may find you are bidding on a broken bear, or a bear with no box.

Check the Buy It Now prices, unless there is something extra special, do not go over a Buy It Now price when bidding.

If you are new to Bad Taste Bears, check what are actual Bad Taste Bears. Bears have been sold under the Bad Taste Bear catergory that are not from the collection.

Check on the original site, sometimes you may find a bear that isnt on Ebay. BadTasteBears.com

I hope this helps.

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DSX9 From the Far East etc

Further to my last guide on the 9303 and the "dangers" of self importing, I feel it is now necessary to warn potential ebayers of sourcing equipment from the Far East again.The DSX9 has been given certification for Europe. However, JR Radio somehow released DSX9 variants destined for the rest of world with a CE label attached. This creates a problem as these sets ARE NOT CE compliant and as such are illegal to use within the EU.The Far East sellers will tell you that the power output is the same as the American systems but it has a CE label. This is a contradiction as if the power level is the same as the US, then it cannot be CE compliant.The ONLY source for a fully compliant DSX9 for the UK and those countries within Europe who have allowed the use of 2.4 GHz, is via MacGregor Industries. If you are offered a DSX9 and you are not certain whether it is compliant or not, get the serial number and contact MacGregors and we can trace the serial number and batch number to ascertain whether it is a CE compliant system or not.